Excellent book

This was a fascinating look at the life of a woman about whom I had previously known nothing. Well written and interesting throughout.

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Brilliant

Really enjoyed this book from the perspective of Einstein’s wife. Although in part fiction very credible. Narrated beautifully.

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As a female engineer this was inspiring.

I’m just sorry Mileva didn’t realise her potential. How history would have been re-written.

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Outstanding story highlighting how women struggle for equality

This is no feminist rant for those who believe it is. It hasn't been written without reason,cause or need. It is an excellent story with a great deal of truth backed up with evidence from material gathered by the author. It shows just how long and to some extent how far women have had to come in order to be accepted in a domain perpetuated with men who can and who are often mysoginistic towards women. Sadly the story exposes how, all too often women are type cast and pigeon holed into stereotypical roles without regard or recognition for their talents and or intellect. My only thoughts after this story, is why justice hasn’t been given to balancing out that actually Albert Einstein’s wife was the brains behind the theory or relativity and it is she who should posthumously be getting a Nobel prize.

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Fascinating and frustrating

An excellent dramatised account of the life of promising scientist Mitza Maric. The narration is beautiful, and the tale both fascinating and frustrating, as the talented Mitza encounters the prejudice of a male-dominated society, attempting to create a life for herself as a physicist in the shadow of her revered husband.

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A different perspective on Albert Einstein

This is a very brilliant novel. It shows a different perspective on Albert Einstein's life. Even though it is a novel, one cannot help but wonder whether there is a bottom of thruth...

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Speculative but powerful look at a woman pioneer

What did you like most about The Other Einstein?

A story I never knew I should know.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Other Einstein?

The meeting and wooing of the two, their meeting of minds at first, but there were many moments that showed me the disadvantage throughout history of being born a woman.

Which character – as performed by Mozhan Marno – was your favourite?

Mitza herself. It's her story and her voice that shines.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Oh yes... without giving too much away it concerned the fate of the protagonist's child. Weeping buckets in the streets, never a good look.

Any additional comments?

Speculative biographical narrative of the woman behind one of modern history's most influential scientists.

4.5 stars. The exact facts may, most likely, never be known, but this really gets you thinking: "who WAS the instigator? Who was the brains? Was it all really who history has led us to believe?

I saw the TV programme with Geoffrey Rush a short while ago and had this book in mind since then. With International Women's Day just past, I decided it was a good time to read about the wife and colleague of Einstein, but whose name I didn't even know.

Mileva “Mitza” Marić. A true story. A Serbian woman, with a limp, fighting to show she deserves her hard-won place at a Polytechnic in Zurich. Treated with disdain by almost everybody, one other student at first shows kindness and later respect for her mind, her ambition and her great talent for mathematics and physics. He is Albert Einstein.

This story charts the rise of Einstein through the eyes of the woman who loved him, and exactly what life there would be for someone in his shadow. Mitza speaks to us directly, and though the author has had to take liberties, surmise, take educated guesses, it feels as though it all COULD be true, things fit the known facts. Mitza shows us just how hard any woman back then would have had to work to show herself even the equal of a man, and how the natural trials of females (pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, domestic drudgery) severely limited and curtailed their potential. Maddening really.

I loved the scenes with Marie Curie, with two female scientists talking about men. I bawled (while listening on the streets!) to some very upsetting scenes of Mitza's first child and her fate. My feelings about Albert steadily changed through Mizta's story and I'm not sure I will ever think of him in quite the same way again, however many liberties have been taken with the truth.

I sped through this in less than two days, the narrator's voice on audiobook a personal and involving one. Little-known stories in history are those that make it, that the big events are built on. That deserve to be read and known and remembered.

This definitely deserves a wider readership. An early pioneer of important science and a victim of Victorian thinking, Milena both defined and was defined by history.

A sample copy of this audiobook was provided by Nudgebooks for an honest review.

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Intriguing and beautifully written

I absolutely loved this book. It draws you in and holds you from start to finish. As much women’s fiction as it is historical/biographical, it brings you deep into the psychological development and emotional maturation of an intelligent woman who lacked the support that might have seen her life develop differently.

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